Short sea shipping company OPDR expands its container fleet

1,500 brand-new transport units for the container fleet of Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR):

Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR) begins implementing a multi million US dollar investment to expand and modernise its container fleet. On 29 November they gave the starting signal for adding 1,500 brand-new 40’ pallet wide high cube containers.This investment sees the OPDR container fleet grow by over 20 per cent from 7,000 to a total of 8,500 units. For the first time the company also produced containers with a bamboo floor in a step aimed at supporting efforts to find an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional hard wood flooring.

"We are well aware of the impact our container specification and fleet age have on our Containers’ performance and how it impacts the cost of operation", states OPDR Managing Director Mark Wilkinson. "We have therefore introduced various features to enhance cargo protection and reduce the cost of operating the container for our customers and ourselves. We are constantly seeking ways to further develop our container design in order to offer our customers the best possible container."

For more than 125 years Oldenburg-Portugiesische Dampfschiffs-Rhederei (OPDR), based in Hamburg, has transported cargo across Europe as well as to and from Africa. The container shipping company has specialized in offering short sea shipping services on determined routes, marketed through an efficient agency network in more than 20 European as well as Northern and Western African countries. The company of the Bernhard Schulte Group has about 100 employees across Europe on land.

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